This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...century, so that those who believe that the earth will not yield its increase until its whole surface belongs to a few favoured individuals, may find something there to stagger their theory. I will trouble you to show better fields of wheat or clover, or cider than in the archduchy. Alas, I did not ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...century, so that those who believe that the earth will not yield its increase until its whole surface belongs to a few favoured individuals, may find something there to stagger their theory. I will trouble you to show better fields of wheat or clover, or cider than in the archduchy. Alas, I did not mean to babble of green fields, still less to preach political economy, but what topic can I find?.... Doubtless you know Gmunden, where we are, and Ischl, where we are going, so I shall not describe their charms, which are manifest. I have seen hardly a soul in six weeks outside of my own household. I have been trying to forget the politics of the nineteenth century and of the seventeenth, and that Schleswig-Holstein "Meer umschlungen," or that the Marquis Spinola ever existed. All of a sudden this morning we hear of our mild little coup d'etat in Vienna. Here is our blessed little Constitution of February abolished, or rather "sistirt," a fico for the phrase. The Ungarn Reichsrath and the Weiterer Reichsrath are both gone to Abraham's bosom, and the Huns, with their passive resistance, have triumphed at last. Now if the infuriated people are building barricades in the Kohlmarkt and Graben, and if a revolution is going on, I shan't be there to see, unluckily, for we stop here a fortnight longer. Probably there will be a few more bottles of Schwechater Bier consumed this week than usual. Alas, for the beautiful new Parliament House which we were just beginning to build on the most solid foundations, not far from the new Opera House! I'm afraid that the labours of that piece of architecture will be "sistirt." The Schmerling Theatre outside the Schottenthor was a shaky little temporary affair of lath and plaster, but...
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Add this copy of The Correspondence of John Lothrop Motley in Two to cart. $18.00, very good condition, Sold by Common Crow Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Pittsburgh, PA, UNITED STATES, published 1889 by Harper & Bros.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Complete in two volumes. 1889. First edition. Hardcover, 395 pp., 423 pp. (plus 8 pages of advertisements in vol. two). Very good. Previous owner's bookplates to front pastedown endpapers. Previous owner's stamp and sticker to verso of front flyleaf of vol. two. Light sun-fading to spines. Light soiling to gilt top edge. Light wear to covers. Faint dampstain to bottom corner of first 25 pages of vol. two; faint dampstain top corner of pages of vol. two; contents unaffected.
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Very Good. Two volumes, large 8vo, full green cloth with gilt spine titles. Very Good: light rubbing at the corners and spine ends, bindings tight and square, one hinge cracked. Widely scattered light foxing.
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Good. Ex-Library. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. NY: Harper, 1889. Two volume set. First edition. 4to. Green silk bindings, 395, 423 pp. Top edge gilt. Frontispiece portrait in Volume 1. Ex-library. John Lothrop Motley (April 15, 1814-May 29, 1877) was an American author, best known for his two popular histories The Rise of the Dutch Republic and The United Netherlands. He was also a diplomat, who helped to prevent European intervention on the side of the Confederates in the American Civil War. Wear to boards at extremities with age spotting. Prelims have foxing, but interiors are clean and hinges sound. Good.
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Very Good. No Dust Jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Original green cloth covers w/ gilt title on spines. Bindings lightly soiled and rubbed. Top edges gilt. Previous owner's bookplate on front paste-down of both volumes. Light scattered foxing. Pencil notes to rear endpaper of Vol. 1. Illust. w/ a frontispiece portrait in Vol. 1. Contents nice.
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Edited by George William Curtis. In Two Volumes. NY: Harper & Brothers, 1889. [First American Edition]. x, 395; ix, 423p, 8p publisher's ads. Engraved frontispiece portrait. 26x18cm, green S cloth, teg. BAL 14595. 1p ALS with transcript laid-in to 'My dear Murray', his London publisher. Covers worn & soiled, text slightly tanned, hinge tender, few endsheets detached, G.
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